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Merrill Corporation is a leading global SaaS provider for participants in the M&A lifecycle. The company’s platform, DatasiteOne, powers secure, intelligent due diligence and enterprise collaboration for thousands of deals in more than 170 countries. To learn more, visit www.merrillcorp.com.

ISC Security Events

The iconic ISC brand has been trusted for over 50 years to provide the assets and knowledge needed to fight emerging security threats. The ISC Security Events include ISC West, ISC East, ISC Brazil, and Expo Seguridad Mexico. ISC West, in collaboration with premier sponsor Security Industry Association (SIA), is the portfolio’s flagship event and the largest converged security event in the U.S. Now taking place in March, ISC West 2020 (SIA Education@ISC: March 17-19 | Exhibit Hall: March 18-20) will take place at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. With 3,000 people across 29 offices, including more than 1,700 lawyers, our long-standing relationships and collaborative structure make us the go-to partner for the speedy resolution of complex disputes, transactions, and regulatory matters. https://www.reedsmith.com/en/

A top 10 U.S. Bank, Capital One® offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Led by a team that has managed over $3 billion in security industry financings, the Security Lending Group focuses on providing creative debt solutions to meet the unique needs of various security-industry subsectors. Among these subsectors is alarm monitoring, access control, video surveillance, system integration, and managed security services. Please contact John Robuck at john.robuck@capitalone.com or 301-509-7113 to learn more about our Security Lending Group and how we can help your business grow. For more information, visit https://www.capitalone.com/commercial/.

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ADITYA KRISHNAN

Head of Amazon Kinesis Video and Data Streams

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Adi Krishnan is the Head of Amazon Kinesis Video and Data Streams at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He oversees all product, engineering, and business for massively scalable, cloud-based, streaming data services that power customers around the world.

For 7 years, he has been working to build platforms that enable sources of streaming data like IoT devices, video sensors, mobile apps, servers and other IT infrastructure, to be processed by large scale data and video analytics systems that generate real-time insights to drive businesses forward. Prior to Amazon Web Services, Adi held a variety of product management roles at Microsoft Corp. across enterprise server technologies, high performance computing, and consumer online search.

JUSTIN SILLER

Director, Building, Home and City Technologies

IHS Markit Technology

Mr. Justin Siller is the Research Director for the Building, Home and City Technology group. He has direct responsibility for the strategy, personnel, business development and research activities of this team. Justin’s area focuses on topics of smart home, smart buildings, and smart cities with dedicated research topics of security, fire, HVAC, building automation, lighting, appliances, and entrance control.

In addition, Justin acts as a consulting lead to support clients with all aspects of their strategic planning, product strategies, and market entry.

In his previous role, Justin led the security and fire research area as well as authored several market studies. His expertise areas were fire equipment, mass notification systems, homeland security, automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and building automation.

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things. We make it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely. Our trusted identity solutions give people convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be identified, verified and tracked digitally. Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and over 2 billion things are connected through HID technology. We work with governments, educational institutions, hospitals, financial institutions, industrial businesses and some of the most innovative companies on the planet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, HID Global has over 3,000 employees worldwide and operates international offices that support more than 100 countries. HID Global® is an ASSA ABLOY Group brand. For more information, visit www.hidglobal.com.

JOHN P. CUNNINGHAM, Ph.D

Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science Institute

Columbia University

John P. Cunningham, Ph.D. is a leader in machine learning/artificial intelligence and its application to industry. In his academic capacity, he is a professor at Columbia University in the Department of Statistics and Data Science Institute, and has received multiple major awards including the Sloan Fellowship and McKnight Fellowship. In industry, he has worked in, founded, exited, and advised multiple companies in the data and AI space. He currently serves as a technical advisor to a number of companies and investment groups. His education includes an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (computer science), masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University (electrical engineering), and a fellowship at University of Cambridge (machine learning).

JEFF KESSLER

Managing Director, Institutional Research Group

Imperial Capital

Mr. Kessler is a Managing Director in the Institutional Research Group. Mr. Kessler has more than 25 years of experience covering security industry for the investment community. He joined Imperial Capital in 2008 from Lehman Brothers where he had served 21 years as the senior security/business services analyst. He was named in December 2006 by Security Magazine as one of the industry’s “25 Most Influential Leaders.” In addition to publishing the Security Industry Annual, and Imperial Capital’s Security Monitor, Mr. Kessler co-founded the Securing New Ground industry conference, which is run by the Security Industry Association and is now in its 17th year. Mr. Kessler earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science / economics from McGill University, a Master of Arts degree in political science/economics from McGill University, and a Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia University.

THOMAS LYNCH

Director for Security Technology

IHS Markit Technology

Thomas Lynch is the Director for Security Technology at IHS Markit Technology. IHS Markit have been providing research on the Security and Critical Communications market now for over 15 years and is a recognized leader in security research and market intelligence. Thomas and his team of global experts focus across video surveillance equipment, safe cities, public safety, future communications technologies such as LTE, command & control and Cybersecurity.

Thomas holds an Distinction at MBA from the University of Leicester in International Business, is a Chartered Marketer, Chartered Manager and has nearly 20 years operational, engineering communications and security experience and is recognized as an international speaker and critical communications and security market expert.

JOHN ROBUCK

Managing Director, Security Finance

Capital One Bank Commercial & Specialty Finance, Commercial Banking

Mr. Robuck is Managing Director of the Security Finance lending practice within Capital One Bank’s Commercial and Specialty Finance business. In this role, Mr. Robuck leads a team in the underwriting and structuring of senior asset-based and cash-flow financings for middle-market businesses. Specific sectors of focus include alarm monitoring, public safety, government contracting, defense/homeland security, and systems integration businesses.

Prior to joining Capital One in 2011, Mr. Robuck served as Director of CapitalSource Finance’s Security Lending Group where he helped to develop the growth strategy for the business and identified opportunities with new private equity sponsors, intermediaries, and businesses, while continuing to build a portfolio of well-performing, high-yield senior loans. Mr. Robuck has an established presence in the physical and government security markets and participates in several security industry conferences as a panelist and has been often quoted in industry publications. Mr. Robuck also held various other underwriting and portfolio management positions at CapitalSource Finance prior to his work in the Security Industry.

Mr. Robuck has more than 14 years of senior debt investment experience and more than 12 years of specific security industry experience.

Mr. Robuck obtained his Bachelor’s of Science degree with a dual concentration in Finance and International Business from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

JOHN E. MACK III

Co-Head Investment Banking Group, Head of Security Group

Imperial Capital, LLC

Prior to joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Mack founded USBX Advisory Services, LLC, where he was the Chief Executive Officer of this preeminent boutique investment banking firm focused on the Security Industry. Before founding USBX, Mr. Mack served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Protection One, Inc., the second largest security alarm monitoring business in North America and a party to approximately 200 M&A/Finance transactions. Mr. Mack earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

SIA is the leading trade association for global security solution providers, with more than 900 innovative member companies representing thousands of security leaders and experts who shape the industry’s future. SIA is the proud sponsor of ISC Events expos and conferences, hosts the annual SIA GovSummit for government security decision makers, and produces Securing New Ground, the security industry’s top executive conference for peer-to-peer networking.

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IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO)

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